Keynotes and Workshops
From short performances to long retreats,
these events will delight, inform, connect, and inspire ...
The Play of Spirit
Lecture
Duration 1 hour
Ideal for conferences, interfaith gatherings, festivals, training for caregivers, teachers, clergy, therapists.
Explore the timeless wisdom of different spiritual traditions, plus the modern insights of transpersonal psychology. This lecture covers the entire journey of cosmic creation, from spirit to matter and back again, using Chris Gilvan-Cartwright's breathtaking paintings as a backdrop for contemplation.
In the Beginning Was the Hum
Experiential Keynote
(group toning, slides, music)
Duration 20 minutes
Ideal for when your conference needs a big-hearted uplift for mind, body, and soul.
Physicists and mystics agree: the universe is humming. In this presentation, Marty leads your group in the vibrational chanting that gave birth to his mystical creation story, Becoming Me, and we perform the story together, giving you a tune-up for body and soul.
The Interfaith Mystic
Seminar/Workshop
(lecture, discussion, meditation, exercises)
Duration 3 hours - 2 days
Ideal for conference breakouts (or as a stand-alone workshop). Suits caregivers, teachers, clergy, therapists.
What do all religions have in common? How do find real common ground with people of different traditions? What do our own experiences teach us about the underlying mystical order of the universe. And what are we really here for?
This seminar uses the story of Becoming Me as a means to develop profound, personal interfaith understanding.
Marty draws on ideas, stories, and poetry from different faiths to illuminate the deeper meaning of each short phrase in Becoming Me, while one of Chris Gilvan-Cartwright's images is projected as a focus for contemplation. Participants are invited to share their own experiences, stories, and poems, and their understanding of their own tradition.
This is an expereince of what Marty calls “philsophy from the heart” — we are exploring profound ideas but in a way that is deeply connected to personal experience and deep listening.
Moving through the story in this collaborative way, we develop a personal understanding of the common themes of different faiths.
The Cosmic Playpen™
Workshop/Retreat
Duration 1 - 5 days
Offered as a stand-alone retreat
This is an experiential 'plunge' into the process of cosmic play. Through chanting, breathwork, bodywork, theatre games, laughter yoga, philosophy, and clowning we explore how all of creation is the play of consciousness.
This powerful retreat helps you appreciate directly how all aspects of life--joy and sadness, success and failure, spiritual heights and personal depths--are all part of this play, and find the freedom that comes from letting go.
"Marty Boroson is an eloquent and gifted presenter.
He combines thoughtfulness and deep knowledge with a capacity to present from the heart and move people as well as give them new ideas. People learn and are helped in their own spiritual journey by his rich teachings."
—Professor Stephen G. Wright, FRCN, MBE
Faculty of Health, St. Martins College, Lancaster
Chairmen, Sacred Space Foundation, Cumbria, UK